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The Publican
In the latest edition of SIBA magazine Journal Pugh wrote: "I hope that we all have the best interests of cask ale brewing at heart and we should be asking ...

Morning Advertiser
... the brewery's Cascade Pale Ale scooped the Champion Premium Bitters prize. ... but to win the overall title was a real surprise and shows that the UK's ...

Punch Taverns is to attempt to lure graduates and entrepreneurs into taking on some of its pubs through a new scheme entitled Capital Builder. Under the initiative after a period of time lessees will earn ownership of their fixtures and fittings, as well as a cash deposit, “without actually contributing any cash payments themselves”. Punch said 236 pubs will come under the scheme.

The Australian
THE Australian beer market is undergoing the sort of renaissance seen in the wine sector 20 years ago, with a slew of microbreweries emerging to slake ...

expressandstar.com
CAMRA, the real ale pressure group, said it was “somewhat unfortunate” Marston's had decided to increase their beer prices a few weeks before a Budget.

Huffington Post (blog)
Perkins also hands out a special business card of his that can be affixed to a pint glass, informing servers not to take the beer away, because you're ...

Not the most jolly of occasions but had a tip top pint of GK IPA at a wake in Bury today. Others can say what they like, but this beer is still bloody good when it is good, which is usually on it's home turf.

Morning Advertiser
Stratford-upon-Avon mayor Jenny Fradgley gave a rousing introduction, praising the role that real ale plays in combating binge drinking. ...

Financial Times
However, it agreed to reopen its inquiry earlier this year to head off a protracted and costly legal challenge from the Campaign for Real Ale.

Belfast Telegraph
Hilden Brewery was founded in 1981 by Seamus and Ann Scullion when they returned to Northern Ireland after a period living in England, which boasts hundreds ...

There are many great brewing regions in the UK, and then, there’s Yorkshire. Yorkshire where the only decent brewery is one in exile from Suffolk, namely Wensleydale (formerly Lidstones). So I for one won’t be decrying Carlsberg’s decision to move Tetley’s cask brewing from Leeds to Marston’s brewery in Wolverhampton. Chances are that being brewed in the Midlands, and by the pretty decent brewer that Marston’s is, will no doubt improve the ale in leaps and bounds. I look forward to trying it when it finally moves.

CAMRA Responds to Select Committee Report on Pub Companies

CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has welcomed today’s Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee Report on Pub Companies which demands major reform in the way the Large Pub Companies operate and threatens statutory intervention if these reforms are not implemented voluntarily by June 2011. The Committee also urges the Office of Fair Trading to look more carefully at the issues involved as it responds to CAMRA’s super-complaint for the second time.

In addition to today’s Select Committee Report the Liberal Democrats have indicated that they will pursue radical reform of the Beer Tie in the next Parliament, including a free of tie option and a guest beer right.

Mike Benner, CAMRA Chief Executive, said:

‘The Large Pub Companies are now in the last chance saloon. The pub sector has had long enough to deliver self regulation and failed. They either voluntarily reform to ensure a fair deal for consumers or risk potentially punitive intervention from the Competition Authorities and Government.

‘CAMRA is demanding that the Large Pub Companies act immediately to allow their licensees the option of selling one guest real ale purchased at free market prices. Given the popularity of locally brewed real ale it is simply crazy that most pub licensees are prevented from buying beer from their local brewers. The Large Pub Companies should also agree to a legally binding code of conduct and move quickly towards offering all their lessees a free of tie option at a fair rent.

‘Over half of the UK’s pub licensees are prevented from buying beer on the open market at freely negotiated prices and the Large Pub Companies are exploiting this to charge licensees between 40% - 45% more than free market prices. These artificially inflated prices are passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices, reduced investment in pubs and pub closures.’

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BusinessWeek
Asia Pacific volume fell 2.5 percent after the sale of the company's Oriental Brewery Co. Ltd. in Korea to KKR & Co. LP last year. ...

Morning Advertiser
“We produce a wide selection of real ales but beer drinkers know what they like, and will often stick to their favourite tried-and-tested varieties,” said ...